Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sale was largely inspired by the success of Naughty Marietta (TIME, April 1, 1935) which served as the first important cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced...
...outside competition Enos' achieved his greatest success when he went to the quarter-finals of the National Amateur tournament last summer...
Americans have bitter cause to remember a "program"--in many respects similar to M. Blum's--full of glittering promises, some of which could be subscribed to "in principle" by thoughtful people. The botched execution, the lack of fundamental planning, and above all, the record of ill-success has left many disillusioned and ready to reckon how much has been destroyed and how little constructed in its place...
Today the G.O.P. Convention gets under way, and out of the ensuing maelstrom of conflicting ideas and personalities must emerge a leader and a program. Both must be shrewdly chosen and thereafter carefully cherished, if the party is to meet with success next November...
Nanda Devi is 25,662 feet in height and located in the Sikhim Himalaya range, about 60 miles from the Tibetan border. Although there are nine higher peaks than Nandi Devi, including Everest, none have ever been climbed, and, unless Everest goes down to defeat this summer, success in reaching the summit of Nanda Devi would give the Harvard climbers the honor of scaling the highest peak ever reached...